Status: IN
Hosted control planes and standalone clusters use fundamentally different machine management: standalone uses MachineSet/MHC with BMC-based bare metal provisioning, while HCP replaces these with NodePool/autoRepair and runs control planes as pods — two incompatible operational models under the same platform.
Machine lifecycle management is architecturally split between HCP and standalone patterns
Depends on (SL): hcp-differs-from-standalone-in-machine-management, bare-metal-provisioning-architecture